The UK's Brexit Referendum.

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I don't live in Scotland and have no real opinion on the country's independence. I say this with all respect to
Gordi -who I agree with, that Scotland has been used for centuries and still are being screwed over by the
country south of the border.

My only connection (apart from my ancestors supposedly being one of the four clans of North Tyneside and
stem from Vikings) with Scotland is that Gordi's gang and where I live are treated basically the same.

Whether it has anything to do with distance from England's capital or the idea that anyone living north of
the Watford-Gap is a smelly working-class ignoramus, I can't say. But I can say a vast majority of Scotland
know in their hearts that they're seen as second-class citizens and most of those living outside of London are
aware why such a feeling exists.

Secret indyref poll in 2014 'put Yes 4% ahead'.



'A secret opinion poll just days before the 2014 Scottish independence referendum caused "panic" among
No campaigners, a new documentary claims.
It said the internal poll carried out for the UK government put the Yes campaign four percentage points ahead.

Also in the documentary, veteran BBC broadcaster Allan Little criticises the attitudes of some of his London-based
colleagues towards independence. BBC boss Ken MacQuarrie said the corporation did its job professionally...'

Anyone here ever heard of a person responsible for a broadcasting company respond to a question that they
deliberately did a job unprofessionally?!! Of course the Scottish referendum was skewed in the manner it was
portrayed by the media, Buckingham Palace and Westminster demanded it so!

'Something was shifting'
The third part of the documentary series Yes/No: Inside the Indyref, to be shown on the BBC Scotland channel on
Tuesday, looks at the last days of the 2014 campaign. The No campaign eventually won the referendum by 55% to
45%.

Better Together, which was fighting for Scotland to remain part of the UK, had started the two-and-half year campaign
as much as 20 points ahead in opinion polls. But as the 18 September polling day drew closer, the result was too close
to call.

Douglas Alexander, who was a Labour MP and senior Better Together figure, tells the programme "something was shifting".
According to Andrew Dunlop, special adviser to Prime Minster David Cameron, the government was so concerned it
conducted its own daily tracking poll.

On Friday 5 September, less than two weeks before polling day, its secret results showed the lead for the Yes campaign
was four points. It came the same day as a YouGov poll was received by the Sunday Times showing Yes were leading the
polls for the first time by 51%-49%.

There was "overwhelming panic" from everyone involved with Better Together, according to Ruth Davidson, leader of the
Scottish Conservatives...'

Aye and in the halls of Westminster too...! But you won't read that in the MSM!

'...Despite Ms Davidson advising everyone to "hold your effing nerve", plans were made at the highest levels to completely
change the approach of the campaign.

George Osborne, who was chancellor at the time, went on Andrew Marr's Sunday morning TV programme to announce a plan
of action to give more powers to Scotland over tax, spending and welfare. The documentary also talks to Nick Robinson, who
was the BBC's political editor at the time.

He had a high-profile dispute with Alex Salmond, who was Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP at the time, over his
reporting of a plan by the Royal Bank of Scotland to move its headquarters to England in the event of a Yes vote.
The pair engaged in a lengthy exchange during a press conference and Robinson claimed in his news story that Mr Salmond
"didn't answer" the question.

Robinson told the Yes/No programme: "In the end it was a subjective view as to whether he did or didn't properly answer the
question. "It wasn't a clever script line. In truth, given the chance, I would have rewritten it."

BBC broadcaster Allan Little, who grew up in south-west Scotland and had worked for the corporation for more than 30 years
at the time of the referendum, told the programme he was surprised how little some people in London knew about what had
brought Scotland to that moment.

Little, who was the BBC's Referendum Correspondent, said: "I know how hard my colleagues in London work at trying to get it right.
"It's in the DNA when you are a BBC journalist...'

From a man who has supposedly grown up in Scotland! His affiliation was to the BBC -it seems.

'..."I'm not cynical about that but I was quite surprised by some of my colleagues failing to understand their own assumption that
the Yes side was wrong." He added that some colleagues thought "that our responsibility was to produce a series of pieces to
demonstrate how foolish it would be to vote Yes".

Ken MacQuarrie, who was the director of BBC Scotland, told the programme BBC journalists "left behind" their own opinions
when reporting...'

F*ck off! Ah, that's a laugh!

'...He said: "People were doing a professional job as far as was possible in every situation that they came across."...'

BBC:

The BBC programme is aired on Tuesday evening at 10.00.pm (19th March 2019)
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Yer've gotta love 'em for their fake devotion.

Political Editor for Sky News -Adam Boulton, commented in one of his afternoon 'Brexit' reports that Harold Wilson -the Prime
Minister during the UK's first-ever referendum about staying in the European Community, 'kicked the can down the road' due to
an internal argument of counting the British votes and it was only until David Cameron became Prime Minister in 2010 was such
an easier referendum was attempted in 2016.

Boulton went on to say that holding the referendum, Cameron got it wrong and lost. Lost...? Who 'wins' and who 'loses' in
a democratic choice?! One can choose a preferred decision, but it's not a competition against someone who picks another.
It's not something you 'lose' unless you lose something that benefits from the current status and it is changed.
But whether this is how David Cameron or the Sky Editor felt, wasn't expounded upon!
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By the way, the question regarding the 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum was:

"Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the Common Market)?"

And the Political Parties desires were:

For a "Yes" vote
Conservative Party
Liberal Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Alliance Party
Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party
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No official party position
Labour Party
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For a "No" vote
Scottish National Party
Plaid Cymru
Ulster Unionist Party
National Front
Communist Party of Great Britain
Democratic Unionist Party
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What the nation said back then:

Constituent country Electorate ..........Turnout (%) ...............Yes........................No

England                 33,356,208                  64.6%                     14,918,009           6,812,052
Wales                     2,011,136                   66.7%                     869,135                   472,071
Scotland                 3,688,799                   61.7%                     1,332,186                 948,039 
Northrn Ireland      1,030,534                   47.4%                     259,251                    237,911